The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


pounds capacity.
A Stevens. general freight agent of the Terre
Haute e. Peoria road, gives notice that all spe-
cai rates now in effec: will be Cancelled on the
4th of April.
Passenger rates west-bound are again badly
of. The break is led, it is stated, by the weaker
lines, which expect to suffer in their business
with the taking effect of the new law.
All the old engines on the L., n. A. & Z. are
to be rebuilt as fast as they can be nut through
the shops. Already six have been rebuilt, ana
are doing excellent service on the main line
All lines west of Pittsbure operated by the
Pennsylvania Company yesterday discontinued
the sale OF mileage books. and agents have oeeh
instructed to send in all the books they have In
stock.
M. e. ingalls, spent last night in the city, and
this morning goes over the western division OF
the c., T.. st. l.. e. C. He states that his VISIT
across the water is simply for pleasure ana rec
reation and he will be absent but month
The Ohio Falls car works Jeffersonville Ind,
are arranging to manufacture their own car
axles, and are putting in heavy trip hammers to
30 the work. This company has within the last
sne2sn been awarded several large contracts for
fFeissst and coal-cars
NJ e. ingalls, accompanies the paymaster on
mis- monthly rounds this month, and the o.. L.,
St L. g. C. pay-car goes west this morning The
train is not run as rapidly as usual. as, besides
being the pay trip. it is careful inspection trip
Of the road-bed, as we'll
General Manager Bradley, of the Lake Erie &
Western, is quietly letting ont the small caiber
officials and agents Of the road and putting in
ther stead some of the best men he can employ
off Of the p, D. & E. road, of which he was
formerly general manager.
General Manager Bradbury of the Lake Erie
81 Western, has been given authority to expend
$780, 900 on the road bed, in the way OF surfaclng
up. graveling and putting in new ties. hand
some sum of money is well, applied to pur-
chasing more new steel rails.
West-bound travel is very heavy and the pas
senger agents who are on the alert can now do
good service for their respective companies.
For the last eighteen months travel has been,
comparatively speaking, light. and the passen-
ger men appreciate the heavier business
Now that the road-beds are getting well set
tied. the fitty-six miles of the c.. l.. ST. L; & c.
road lying between Templeton and Kankakee is
becoming the smootbest and best track on the
Big Four system. Last year a good deal Of
money was expended on this piece of road.
The Baltimore & Ohio Express Company is
settling up with the persons who acted as their
AGENTS on the Ohio & Mississippi road prior to
the Adams Express Company roofing the B. &
o. express off of the road. A number of the
agents have been employed by the Adams Ex-
press Company.
With the closing up of the affairs of the Chi
eaGo and OHIO River pool Commissioner Rlch-
ardson will be thrown out in the cold, but it is
understood that he is to be taken care of by
some of the roads or associations, as he is the
veteran line manager, having Oeou manager OF
the Green line from away back.
Che report telegraphed from New York, yes
terday, that President John Newell was about
to>esign from the Lake Shore management is
wholly dscredited at Lake Shore headquarters
in Cleveland Mr. Newell is not in Cleveland.
and no one is authorized to speak for him, but
the story is regarded as idle gossip
f. P. Wade. district passenger agent of the
Wabash lines west of the river. yesterday
checked the tickets of the Wabash lines east and
west of the river over to P. A. Lynn, who is the
responsible man for the tickets from this date.
Z. p. Wade will rent desk room in the Office and
post Mr.. Lynn and his clerk up in passenger
T<rrs.
TDs improvements that have been made on
che T., II. 81 L. division OF the Vandalia, in the
way ovcutting down grades, in the last eighteen
months has cost the company $40, coo. But they
will soon get their money back, as ten to twelve
more loaded freight cars are now hauled over
the road with engine thar there possibly
-7UUui6 De before the hills were cut down.
The management of the Vandalia have decided
to continue to work east-bound business out OF
Terre Haute over the t. H. & L. division, as
well as via Indianapolis The rate can be made
the same, but higher from local points. al
from Terre Haute that the seaboard rates
frnui Rockville, Logansport. etc. will be the
same as Terre Haute. The short haul must b.
no higher than the long haul.
George w. Ristine, general manager Of thu
Erie fast freight lines spent Yesterday in tn,
city He states that it Is not definitely settled
who will be the commercial agent of the lines a
Philadelphia, the position resigned by j. H
Steiner. 1t lies between Will Lynn, of TIL,
city, and Connolly jenkins, of Philadelphia, VIII,
is Endorsed by the Lehich Valley people, owe
which road the Erie lines operate.
General Freight Agent Davis, of the Chicag
e. Eastern Illinois, has given official notice tina
after April this road would cease to do through
business out Of Terre Haute eastward. Tn
-Terre Haute Gazette says: ''This shuts tn
Midland fastfreight line out altogether an
also the Blue, Nickel-plate. Traders Dispatch
Great Eastern, Nashville Dispatch and Com
mercial Express over the G. & E. !. The reaso
of this is that under the interstate-commerc
oil it will no longer pay the c. s. E. /. to tax
seaboard business
1t appears that the traffic managers and eenel
al freight agents of the transcontnental line
west of the Missouri river have thus far bee
unable to come to any agreement upon ne'
freight tariffs. 1t is conceded that the new la
makes a revision of the tariff necessary, bu
there are difficulties which they have not bee
able to overcome. The difficulty is not in tn
provisions of the interstate-commerce law br
it is in attempting to reconcile two theorie
which are essentially irreconcilable. The LEAD
ing idea Of the new law is that rates shall
Just and reasonable; the leading idea of the raj
road company is all that the traffic will bear.
On Saturday next the bids for the constructio
of the proposed improvement on the eastern d
vision of the c., l., st. L. & c. road by whic
the road will be so constructed to avoid tn
use Of the tunnel without increasing the di
lance. will be opened. There will be some 4.0(
feet of new road to construct. The estimate
excavation work is $50. 900 cubic yards; emban
ment work. %, 900 yards The average depth
the cut is fiftyfive feet. 1t is to be graded thir
feet wide and to be double tracked, and whe
completed the C., l.. St. l.. 81 9. will be doub
track from Cincinnati to North Bend. The CO
tractors have until June /, 1888, to complete ii
Improvement
Among the first orders issued by j. D. Layn
of 10 wa hat n
struction trains be placed on all division of Il
system and that the road bed should be put
as perfect condition as possible. He has Il
Pennsylvania ideas of railroading instilled in
him. and will donhtleas carry ont such idaas I